Do You Feel Anger?

September 10-19, 2026

What happens when empathy becomes another workplace skill some people are allowed to fail?
Sofia has been hired as an empathy coach at a debt-collection agency, and the job is going about as well as you might expect. Her new clients can barely identify an emotion, much less practice compassion (and let’s just disregard the fact that someone keeps mugging Eva in the kitchen), and the office culture is a nightmare wrapped in corporate language and dead-eyed professionalism. While the employees stumble through lessons in feeling, listening, and basic human decency, something more sinister keeps breaking through the absurdity.
Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s outrageous dark comedy is sharp, bizarre, and deeply unsettling - exposing the danger of a world where harm is normalized, accountability is optional, and some people’s feelings matter far more than others.
*Michigan Premiere*

The Singularity Play

October 8-17, 2026

What happens when machines and corporations take control of our stories before we have a chance to tell them ourselves?
In an unused room inside the Google offices in Manhattan, a theatre troupe gathers to rehearse a new play written by an advanced artificial intelligence named Denise. What begins as an experiment in performance quickly slips into something stranger, darker, and far less controllable. The actors try to make sense of a script written by a machine, but the deeper they go, the more the lines blur between rehearsal and simulation, creator and creation, art and algorithm.
Jay Stull’s The Singularity Play is an existential comedy, a sci-fi horror story, and a slippery theatrical puzzle about creativity, control, desire, and the unsettling future we may already be living inside.

*Michigan Premiere*

A Mile in the Dark

March 4-13, 2027

What happens when a single unanswered question turns a loved one into a stranger?
Jess' stepmother Carol was cheerful, generous, and seemingly at peace — until her unexpected death leaves behind questions no one seems ready, or able, to answer. As Jess tries to understand what happened, the ground beneath her begins to shift. Memory becomes unreliable. Familiar relationships turn strange. Every detail feels charged with meaning, and every answer seems to open into another uncertainty.
Emily Schwend’s A Mile in the Dark is an eerie, intimate drama about grief, suspicion, and the altered state we can enter when loss collides with fear. As Jess begins to question the people around her, the play widens into something even more unsettling: a portrait of how relationships shape us and how the truth can threaten the stories we build in order to feel safe.
*Michigan Premiere*

Phoebe in Winter

May 6-15, 2027

What happens when the cost of survival is not peace but transformation?
Three brothers return home from a distant war, ready to reclaim the lives they left behind. But before the house can become home again, there is a knock at the door. A young woman named Phoebe arrives with an accusation: these men killed her own three brothers. Now she wants reparations. Not money. Not apology. Family. If her brothers are gone, these brothers must become hers.
As Phoebe’s demand takes root, the household begins to warp around her. Roles shift. Power changes hands. The violence everyone thought they had escaped starts finding new ways to live inside the room. Jen Silverman’s Phoebe in Winter is a brutal, poetic, and darkly funny post-war fable about grief, revenge, gender, family, and the insatiable hunger to be made whole after devastation.
*Michigan Premiere*